Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Licensing of Airport Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

No. S 422

Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009

(ACT 17 OF 2009)

Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
(Licensing of Airport Operators) (Amendment)
Regulations 2012

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 102 of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Licensing of Airport Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2012.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Licensing of Airport Operators) Regulations 2009 (G.N. No. S 311/2009) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “financial year”, the following definition:

“ “material capital expenditure” means any capital expenditure project relating to an airport incurred or to be incurred during a regulatory period where the contract value of the project exceeds the materiality threshold specified by the Authority for that regulatory period;”; and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “Seletar Airport” and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definitions:

“ “significant capital expenditure” means any capital expenditure for any significant project;

“significant project” means any project relating to an airport which, if not completed or its completion is delayed —

(a)	is likely to adversely affect the status of Singapore as an international aviation hub;
(b)	is likely to adversely affect the safety of the airport; or
(c)	is likely to adversely affect the security of the airport.”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “regulatory and financial accounts” in paragraph (1), the words “, unless otherwise provided in paragraph (1A)”;

(b)

by deleting sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(d)	a progress report of either items of material capital expenditure or significant capital expenditure, or both, for the preceding regulatory period;”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (1), the following paragraph:

“(1A) Where the circumstances make it inappropriate or impractical for the airport licensee for an airport to prepare under paragraph (1), any account, report, calculation, explanation, price or statistic for a particular financial year, the Authority may waive any requirement under paragraph (1).”; and

(d)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (2), the following paragraph:

“(2A) Where the pricing of aeronautical services and facilities provided by the airport licensee for an airport is an approved tariff, the accounts or consolidated accounts referred to in paragraph (1) for any financial year must show the costs incurred (including the costs associated with maintenance and repair), the revenue earned and the assets utilised in relation to the provision and use of the services at the airport for which an approved tariff is in force in the financial year, including those recovered directly or indirectly from airlines and other airport users.”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 5

4. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Other statements

5.—(1) For the purposes of section 53(1)(a) and (c) of the Act, the airport licensee for an airport must, for its operations at the airport, prepare and give the Authority the following statements at the following times, unless otherwise provided in paragraph (2):

(a)

within 6 weeks (or such longer period as the Chief Executive may allow in any particular case) after the end of each reporting period of a month, a statement, in such detail as the Authority may specify, of the traffic results (including the number of passengers landing at or departing from the airport and the number of connecting passengers), cargo tonnage and the number of aircraft movements at the airport during that reporting period; and

(b)

within 2 months (or such longer period as the Chief Executive may allow in any particular case) after the end of each reporting period of 4 months, a statement of the aeronautical revenue yield earned in that reporting period.

(2) Where the circumstances make it inappropriate or impractical for the airport licensee for an airport to prepare a statement under paragraph (1), the Authority may waive any requirement under paragraph (1).”.

Amendment of regulation 13

5. Regulation 13 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the words “Changi Airport” in paragraphs (1)(a), (b) and (c) and (3)(g), the words “or Seletar Airport”; and
(b)	by deleting sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph (5).

[G.N. Nos. S 457/2009; S 269/2010; S 112/2011]

Made this 22nd day of August 2012.

LEE HSIEN YANG

Chairman,
Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore.

[LE/LGN/C1.09.2; AG/LLRD/SL/41/2010/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 102(4) of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009).

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